Bonjour, and we may face a similar problem with *transliteration* : how to encode the same, say, <unititle> in the same file, both in original language (Thai, Arab...) and in another writing system (Latin) ? In this case, both written forms should be displayed. Regards, Y. Nicolas (Calames - www.calames.abes.fr ) Brian Sheppard a écrit : > But that would imply a separate finding aid. Is there no built in > accommodation for a single EAD encoded in multiple languages? > That is, one EAD, identified by a unique ID, encoded in multiple > languages. It doesn't seem there is. > > But if there were, it would be a simple matter to handle linking > between language versions via the delivery software. > > On June 4, at 10:00 AM, Susan Hamburger wrote: > >> Fabienne and Tifenn, the EAD tag, <otherfindingaid> can be used in >> both the English and the French versions of the finding aid to point >> to each other. >> >> Sue >> >> At 09:16 AM 6/4/2008, you wrote: >>> Hello to everyone >>> Please allow me to transmit to the list a request from a young >>> archivist, Tifenn Hamonic. >>> F. Queyroux >>> Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France >>> >>> "Good morning, >>> As a student of the Ecole nationale des chartes (Paris), I'm >>> actually carrying >>> out the Catalogue of the archives of archaeology kept at the >>> Institut de >>> France (Paris). In this purpose, the description of archives has >>> been encoded >>> in xml using the dtd ead. Then, these files were loaded into the >>> software >>> Pleade 3. >>> The project has a difficulty that I would like to submit to you. We >>> want to >>> make the files available both in English and French. Each >>> description has >>> to refer to the same >>> description in the other language. I wonder which tag(s) should be >>> used to >>> make >>> links between the French and English versions. >>> More generally, I would be very interested to learn about any fully >>> bilingual finding aids and the ways the encoding has been done and >>> the search interface programmed. >>> Can you please enlighten me on this >>> subject? >>> Thank you in advance for your help. >>> Tifenn Hamonic >>> Master II, Histoire et nouvelles technologies >>> Ecole nationale des chartes >>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] " >> >> Susan Hamburger, Ph.D. >> Manuscripts Cataloging Librarian >> Cataloging and Metadata Services >> 126 Paterno Library >> The Pennsylvania State University >> University Park, PA 16802 >> >> 814/865-1756 >> FAX 814/863-7293 >> [log in to unmask] > > -------------------------------------------------- > Brian Sheppard > University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center > [log in to unmask] (608) 262-3349 > > -- Yann NICOLAS -- ABES, Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Supérieur http://www.abes.fr CALAMES, Catalogue des archives et manuscrits de l'Enseignement Supérieur http://www.calames.abes.fr STAR, Plateforme nationale de gestion des thèses électroniques http://www.abes.fr/abes/page,428,star.html TEF, Métadonnées de thèse http://www.abes.fr/abes/documents/tef/index.html